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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:27:22 -0600
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On 11/6/2012 2:10 PM, Carey Dissmore wrote:
> Looking ahead in a big-picture, macro sort of way, I see several things
> being universally true for video production:
>
> Frame sizes, frame rates (at least on acquisition side), a sheer volume
> of data will continue to increase. A lot.
>
> Computing power required to process that video data for editing,
> effects, 3D, physics simulation and more will continue to increase. A lot.
>
> Storage subsystems and the infrastructure to move that data to where it
> needs to go will need to increase dramatically as well.
>
> The point being, all this fascination with mobility, thin clients, low
> power and small is fine as long as there is an acknowledgement that at
> the other end of that is the need for very big, very serious horsepower
> --- and just as importantly ---big data pipes.

Hey, maybe SGI will come back! ;-)

Or, more likely, the "market" will speak, and decide that crappy YouTube 
videos on their designer pocket devices will be the only media people 
want to consume. :-(